A Small Apocalypse: Stories
Autor Laura Chow Reeveen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 mar 2024
In her debut short-story collection A Small Apocalypse, Laura Chow Reeve examines cultural inheritance, hybridity, queerness, and the stickiness of home with an eye for both the uncanny and the realistic: human bodies become reptilian, queer ghosts haunt their friends, a young woman learns to pickle memories, and a theater floods during an apocalyptic movie marathon. The characters in A Small Apocalypse weave in and out of its fourteen stories, confronting their sense of otherness and struggling to find new ways of being and belonging. Heavily steeped in the swampy, feral heat of Florida, these stories venture beyond the problems of constructing an identity to the frontier of characters living their truth in a world that doesn’t yet have a place for them.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780810146945
ISBN-10: 0810146940
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
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ISBN-10: 0810146940
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Triquarterly
Notă biografică
LAURA CHOW REEVE is a writer and illustrator living in Richmond, Virginia. Her fiction has been published in the Rumpus, Catapult, and Joyland, among other publications. Her story in Hyphen was a 2017 winner of the Pen/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and featured on LeVar Burton Reads.
Cuprins
Milked Snakes
Rebecca
One-Thousand-Year-Old Ghosts
Real Bodies
Suwannee
Hunted
Happiest
A Small Apocalypse
Paper Wasps
Beloved Flamingo Stoned to Death
Upstairs
Three-Card Spread
Migratory Patterns
A Packing List for the End of the World
Rebecca
One-Thousand-Year-Old Ghosts
Real Bodies
Suwannee
Hunted
Happiest
A Small Apocalypse
Paper Wasps
Beloved Flamingo Stoned to Death
Upstairs
Three-Card Spread
Migratory Patterns
A Packing List for the End of the World
Recenzii
Debutiful best debuts of 2024 • The Rumpus most anticipated books of 2024 • Electric Literature most exciting debut short story collections of 2024 • Autostraddle best queer books of 2024 • Bitter Southerner southern reading roundup
“A Small Apocalypse does not have a misstep in any of its 14 stories. Whether it’s a gothic tale reimagining Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca — but even queerer — or a young woman learning to pickle memories, this book is consistently fresh, weird, and haunting.” —Autostraddle
“Deliciously fun to read . . . Every story dazzles, dances. There are no misses.” —Book Riot
“This debut collection functions as an exploration of radical subversiveness—of race and ethnicity, of gender and sexuality, of models of family and community, even of species. Lines blur, categories coalesce, and hybridity reigns supreme.” —Kirkus
“Anyone who has ever felt like an outsider, will find this work to be resonant, poignant, and, perhaps, startlingly cathartic.” —Booklist
“These stories answer the question of what it means to not fit in and how to be okay with yourself . . . The sticky Florida settings come to life through gorgeous language and poignant dialogue.” —Debutiful
“Reeve is, above all else, a remarkably sound architect of the short story. Her prose is lucid; it forestalls confusion even as she describes things that are hard to imagine, or hard to talk about. It’s always nice to know there’s somebody trustworthy at the wheel. I think I shall start lending this book to my friends and lovers, dead and living, and let it make the rounds.” —Full Stop
“A Small Apocalypse is messy—but that isn’t a bad thing. The opposite, actually. While the young queer characters are confident in some aspects of their lives, most of the time they are imbued with a refreshing uncertainty about themselves and the bodies they inhabit. It can be quirky and lighthearted in one moment but dark and lonely the next.” —Third Coast Review
“A Small Apocalypse is queer Florida at its absolute finest. Laura Chow Reeve has written a group of stories that astonish, mesmerize, and amaze in equal measure. I enjoyed every moment. A smashing collection!” —Kristen Arnett, author of With Teeth
“The stories in A Small Apocalypse all feel wildly different—Laura Chow Reeve’s debut offers readers real range—but they are also united beautifully by their thematic territory, by the author’s distinctive way of seeing, and by the vividly conveyed and evocative Floridian setting. I love this collection.” — Clare Beams, author of The Illness Lesson
“A Small Apocalypse does not have a misstep in any of its 14 stories. Whether it’s a gothic tale reimagining Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca — but even queerer — or a young woman learning to pickle memories, this book is consistently fresh, weird, and haunting.” —Autostraddle
“Deliciously fun to read . . . Every story dazzles, dances. There are no misses.” —Book Riot
“This debut collection functions as an exploration of radical subversiveness—of race and ethnicity, of gender and sexuality, of models of family and community, even of species. Lines blur, categories coalesce, and hybridity reigns supreme.” —Kirkus
“Anyone who has ever felt like an outsider, will find this work to be resonant, poignant, and, perhaps, startlingly cathartic.” —Booklist
“These stories answer the question of what it means to not fit in and how to be okay with yourself . . . The sticky Florida settings come to life through gorgeous language and poignant dialogue.” —Debutiful
“Reeve is, above all else, a remarkably sound architect of the short story. Her prose is lucid; it forestalls confusion even as she describes things that are hard to imagine, or hard to talk about. It’s always nice to know there’s somebody trustworthy at the wheel. I think I shall start lending this book to my friends and lovers, dead and living, and let it make the rounds.” —Full Stop
“A Small Apocalypse is messy—but that isn’t a bad thing. The opposite, actually. While the young queer characters are confident in some aspects of their lives, most of the time they are imbued with a refreshing uncertainty about themselves and the bodies they inhabit. It can be quirky and lighthearted in one moment but dark and lonely the next.” —Third Coast Review
“A Small Apocalypse is queer Florida at its absolute finest. Laura Chow Reeve has written a group of stories that astonish, mesmerize, and amaze in equal measure. I enjoyed every moment. A smashing collection!” —Kristen Arnett, author of With Teeth
“The stories in A Small Apocalypse all feel wildly different—Laura Chow Reeve’s debut offers readers real range—but they are also united beautifully by their thematic territory, by the author’s distinctive way of seeing, and by the vividly conveyed and evocative Floridian setting. I love this collection.” — Clare Beams, author of The Illness Lesson
Descriere
A gorgeously wrought queer exploration of what it means to exist in the in-between